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THE B.B.C.'S TALK-AND-MUSIC-A PLEA FOR SOME DARENG EXPERIMENTS.
I have just resumed listening-in- after an interval during which my wireless sot has been silent, (writes Show Desmond in the Evening Standard), I wanted to see how broadcasting impressed me, comius freshly to it
Now the official mind sometimes regards oriticíam as a sort of an welcome interjection into the Got tordammerung of Savoy Hill, where the wireless gods take their twilight aleep:
But if they will mix with the Common Man, they will find, I think, that he is thinking some thing this way:
"I am not grumbling at the quantity machined out by the broad- casting people. I'm only bothered
Experiments.
TO-DAY'S WIRELESS WIRELESS BOOM.
PROGRAMME.
BROADCAST BY ZB.W. ON
355 METRES.
11 to 11:30 am-Stock quotations. 11:30am-Chincse programme, 12.30 p.m.-European programas
of Victor and H.M.V. records. p.m.-Local time and weather Groport
Wireless should
really magic" At present it is just machine. And machine-made What I should like to sea Lang magic is not magical at all.
de luxe, and its intricate ladyrinths ham place do with its new theatro of machines, is to make new and daring experiments with the human being, rather than with the machines
Don't stick up the wretched human before a brassy dial as though he or she were a doll, and after putting him or her into a strait waistcoat of directions, or what they must and must not do, oak them to "do their stuff”
Give them air | Laterally.
I Have spoken, on both sides of
a bit by the sameness and lack of the Atlantic to copsdty filled halis life in it. Indeed, I will admis of the largest size, but on the soli that it is often fine stuff poorly pratary occasion when I was teated at sented. Often, when I listen in I get the feeling that behind my loud speaker there is no person- ality. It is like listening to giamophons that is turned on and
qff at intervals.
Drama, for instance, is as dead us mutton, cold mutton, when it comes over the wirefoss. It is like schoolboys saying their lessons. "I there is some technical difficulty in the way, then why don't the B.B.C.
Savoy-hill by, I must say, most courteous official, and was planked down against the atrocious dial”” to say my staff from a casual news-
4x
paper, I felt, and probably spoke, like a ventriloquist's dummy What I needed, and what I should have had, was a living audience to en thuse and to give vitality.
I have nothing to gain by this critician. I have never been, and I don't suppose I shall ever be, asked
tell us about it. We aren't unrea to broadcast. But I pm trying to sonable, Wo only want to be told. | interpret what thousands are think- Not to be created na vireless duming, as I know from conversation mics.
And so on and sand corespondence,
on,
The Machine Triumphant. The B.B.C. often reminds me of The Girl who took the Wrong Turning" in the famous old melo drama.
only that there is nothing "dramatic "about" our aerial mentors. For that is "bad form
The wrong turning was taken when Savoy Hill allowed the Machine to master the Man.
Audacity, always "audacity !. should be inscribed over the lintels of Langlom-place. I commend it to the powers that "air," as Sarah Gamp might say,
notice, etc.. 1.30 pm-Ragby Press news, mail
to 8 pm-European programme. 8 p.m.--Close down.
to 5.33 p.m.--Programme H.MY, and Viotor records, to 5.18 pm...
of
Band: Selections, Sarabre et Meuse" (Planquetta).' "Le Pere de La Victoirn (Gaane).
La Garda Republicaine Band. (a)Air de Ballet, (b) Coalir
hoe (Chaminade Pas des Cymbales
17
(Chaminade).
The Band of H. M. Coldstream Guarda-C1601.
3.18 to 5.30 P.-
Organ Solos, Chanson? (In Love) (Friml).
Reginald Foort.—B2038. Forever" (Ager)."
In the Heart of the Bunnet" (Nicholls) Reginald Foort.
·B3044
Poem (Fibich),
An Autumn Serenade" (Becco)
Reginald Foort.-B2388, 5.35 to 0.03 p.m.-European child-
ren's concert from the Studio. 0.03 to 6.53.p.m.-
A Concert. W Piano Bolo Soaring (Schu
mann)...
Pinda Solo Tango" (Albenik),
Wilhelm Backhaus -1445. Song- The Wren (Benedict), Song Orpheus with His Lute " (Sullivan Mavis Bennett (So- prano).-B2702.
HEAVY ORDERS AT OLYMPIA
Interpreters at the National Radio Exhibition in Olympia were called upon to speak in ten different languages, including Greek and Hindustani
Manufacturers take this as a sign of the increasing foreign interest in British witciess apparatus, and hope for a big increase in the overseas
radio trade during the coming sea-
Home orders, however, are so heavy that unless manufacture "can" be speeded up, there will in many chaes be no change to supply" gooda
for foreign countries,
Some firms are showing zeta specially designed for use abroad,
Chief among these is a four-valve short-wave supersonia ses made in a hard teak case, dust-proof and weather-proof
It is specially designed for uso in the Dominions, and can receive the B.B.Ca short wave transmitter from any part of the Empire.
HAVE YOU HEARD THESE?
Here are lists of long-wave and short-wave stationa which should be picked up by anyone in Hong Kong who has a mode-" rately good not suitable for re- neiving much signals. Success in plaking up these stations also depends very largely upon
tav. ourable atmospheria conditions. Randers "are" invited to add to this list should they succeed in picking up any station not in- cluded in either of these liata;
LONG-WAVE STATIONS.
WAVE length
Call Kilo
(Metres) Station Sign 'cycle 900 Manila EZI.B. 1188 977 Shanghai.. K.S.M.S. 1,089
JOAK JOEK
345
353- Hiroshima 365 Hong Kong ZB.W. 357.1 Bombay “SV.U.B;
870
099
848
840
361 Sapporo J.O.LE ·800 200 Keijo "JODK. 820
370 Nagoys
370.4 Calcutta
J.0,0.K. 810 V.U.CO 809.9
380 Kumamoto : J.O.G.HR 200 10
390 Sendai
305 Dairen
400 Ouka
410 Canton 480 Manila
SHORT-WAVE STATIONS.
CYCLES
JOHE,STIO JQA.K. 780 J.O.B.K. 750 C.M.B. 739 KZR.M 025
TIME (Hona Koro) OF WILTIES.
Mon, Wed & Fr, 0 p.m. &2 am
6,201 Not regular
STATION
CALL 810%
60.12 80,7
80.
67.65 Dobinte (Germany) A.F.K. Khabarovsk (Inanin) | R.A.97. Naussw Mosco
4,436
4,090 | 610 p.m.
A.G.J
REN
43.5
Rome
1.M.A
Perth
6.4.G.
41.8
Bingapore
V.8.1.A.B.
37
Kootwijk (Holland) Bangkok (Siam) Sydney
Violin Solos-(a) (La Cancion 38.8
dol Olvido" (Serrano Persinger) (b)Rondo (Spohr).
81.55 Melbourne Violin Salo-Chant D'Espagne" 31.48 Schenectady
(Song of Spain) (Samazekih). 31,20 Eindhoven (Holland)
Master Yeliudi Menuhin 81.28 7317.0
Song- 0 Tlower of All the World (Woodforde-Finden). Song Down in the Forest?
Stairali (Konya) £9.5 eng
again recognise with gratitude There is an announcer whose voice
after a year's silence. I like that man. I want to toll him all sorts of things and to ask him for trifles -I don't mean loans-I mean sym(Landon Ronald ). --- Walter 246 pathy.
But I don't know him,
He is only a voice. He is for me By which I mean that everything Jules Verie's Captain Nemo, Why to-day has to bow to the Deus won't the Savoy pundits let him tell ex machine the god out of themo and allion others his name? machino. Personality Vivacity. But did any human being evor Variety, All have to go when the get into close personal touch with machine says so
the awfulness of Saroy Hill 1 I
A Talk Mill.
If Langham-place, unlike the]
6,000 Tue, Thurs., Sat, 9 pan.
8,300 Banday midnight
7,163 Day 6.80 p.m.11 p.m. 7,810 Not regular
PULAU||| 7,780 | Daily 11 p.m. HSLPJ.
8,108 Tuer & Fri
2.D.L. 0,230 Not regular
9,508 Not regular
W2X.A.F. 9,580
P.C
2.F.C.
2.M.E
P.LE. 25.55 Chelmsford (England) 5.5. W.
Manila Schenectady Bandang
23.25
Glynue (Tenor)—B2488; Violoncello Solo-"Manette"! 18.88
(Bach-Pollain),
18.4 Violoncello Solo
"Mazurka "174 18.0 (Popper). Pablo Casals-1340.
18.3
Song "Twilight" (Morris-Hamil 1874
tan)
15.5 Songly Little Nott of Hea- 13.98
venly Blud (Spaeth-Lohar), Maria Feritza: (Soprano)-1234. Piano Solo Pastorale e Capric cioso" (Pastorate) (Scarlatti). --Beans Moisoivitch. –E528. p.m.-Stock
quotations, maîl notices, ste.
Orchestral.
I have been reading about the don't think so. wonders which were disclosed at the Radio Exhibition recently, And I cannot help thinking that wireless reception apparatus being improved at a far greater Girl already referred to, who is hot .53 to 7.19 p... rate than the material that the in a position to do it, will take broadcasting stations are
are giving other turn ng by giving the them to pick up..
"human being rather than the "The Magic Song" (Meyer-Hal- I may be wrong, but with thou
"bumua talking machine 2 mund) Marck Weber and his sands of others I feel that the chance, then broadcasting will Orch. 20750.0 circles" heads, have a fallen in cease to be what it is rapidly be "An American in Paris” (Ger- love with their mechanical perfce coming talk-and-music, milla shwin)-Victor Symphony Orch. tionism, that they have nearly for
with George Gershwin.--353283/ gotten that the only thing that
35084 makes the microphone a living thing out of a dead thing is the person ality put into it.
419 to 8 pm.---
"0
A few years ago there was far more individuality in wireless than to-day. With machinaical perfection has come a port of mutilated and
Variety. automatised humanity, and If they ny that they cannot get One must aduit without quali Vocal Dat" When the Moon
Vocal Duet Bleepy Hollow." personality over the hir, owing: ta fication that the BBC has done mechanical difficulties, then 1st us much for us in many ways. It has
Comes Over the Mountain, -- have a little more perfection of introduced large sections of the
Bud Billings and Carson Robi- personality and a little less machine public to music of a higher class perfection. But I have expert than they had hitherto been accus of Cherries.
Orchestral Life in Just a
Bow! opinion for saying that the purely tomed to, and it has helped with
'Orchestral--! This in the Minstza.?! technical difficulties can be over the study of foreign languages and Rudy Valleo and his Connecti
so on. But it is now merking, timeout Yankees, 227837 at the cross-rond 23
We are living in an age of flux, The very essence of wireless is and an ago of experiment. · Any ita :** remoteness " from the public, thủng like the wireless monopoly The essence of the problem to be to which we are drifting is unthink- solved is how to do away with that able. The only right to administer remoteness Broadcasting can so broadcasting is a oniteless, search Eusily become the "dead" science for new methods of getting the can so easily develop thema human being over the scrapping of chine-mind."
** old concepte, and imaginative fights commensurate to the magni tude of the medium handled
come..
Too Remote,
I remember when it was pro 'chesied that wireless would be the death of the printed word, of the theatre and of half a dozen other
Charu When Yuba Plays the
Rumba on the Tula Chorus Dancing in the Dark."
The levellera — 227754 / Orchestral Red, Red Roses," Orchestral Sweet and Lovely" ----Glua. Arnheim and his Cocoa-
nut Grove Orch—22770. ||12 Vocal-As Time Goes By " Voel Begging for Love."
Rudy Vallee and bin Connecti cut Yankees-22973: Orchestral My Song"; Vocal: The Thrill is Gone.?—
Rudy Valloo and his Connecti
The Great Med. — y To sum up, I would say to the Actually, the printed word has B.B.C.dcut Yankees. 2278A,AKT never been to popular in these days Let the man master the ma 8 pmLocal time and weather of million circulations. Actual chine. Teport. ly there is ten times as much por If you don't do this, wireless sonality behind the printing press having by now exhausted its novel
For Better Results, Use Arcturus" Blue Tubes.as there is behind the microphoney, and therefore no longer able to
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P.L.F HB.1.P.J. PO.K.
·ELE
580 Daily 7 .m.
9,02) | | FIL & Am., Bat. 3 am & 10 am.
9,590). Not regular
0,077 Midnight daily
10,628
"Not regular"
13,020 Midnight a.. daly 11,761 7.50 p.m. & 9 mm. daily, broept
Saturday and Sunday 12,240 Nightly d
12,850
Wod, Fri Sat
10,102 Daily 6.30 p.m. to midnight 16,804 Daily 7p.m
17 280 Daily 8 pmt midnight 17,751 Bundays 7 pm: & midnight
| 18,406 | Each ifterison.......
19,220 Daily 1.80--7 p.m. 10,351 | Daily 8.
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